Word: slut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Josie Hogan (Dewhurst) calls herself "a great cow" and keeps house for her widowed father. She passes herself off as a slut, fearing that no man could desire her. She is actually the shyest of virgins. James Tyrone Jr. (Robards), modeled on O'Neill's elder brother, sees through her sham and is strangely drawn to her inner sweetness and innocence. He is a part-time actor corroded by drink, whoring and self-loathing...
...source of this sense of degradation: "It was Artaud-the latest trumpeter of the Primaqueeri-or one of his brethren, who gave us a picture of a beautiful girl, naked, with a malignant tarantula spider between her lovely thighs." In Harold Pinter's work, the temptress/tarantula becomes the slut/ mother. The theme is developed with the greatest finesse in The Homecoming. Ruth and her husband Teddy come home to England to visit Teddy's widowed father, his two brothers and an uncle, who all live under the same roof. Ruth is enigmatically cool but she crosses and recrosses...
...woman's pleasant study, the man thinks, "I wouldn't like it if my wife had a room like this." Like a weary warrior goddess, Lessing views the seduction step by monstrous step. The woman gives in out of pity for the lout. "The stupid cow, the slut," he concludes...
...closes, Pinter redoubles his attacks on our expectations. People don't answer when spoken to, or if they do, they respond by talking about a totally different subject. Max begins a sentence with, "your mother was a lovely woman" and ends by denouncing that same lovely woman as a "slut-bitch". And throughout, Pinter maintains a delicate balance of humor and menace. In the midst of a conversation filled with small-talk, Lenny suddenly describes to Ruth his brutal beating of a woman the day before: "Well, she was standing up against this wall, see? No, actually she was sliding...
...confirmed misogynist. Few facets of society escaped Wylie's wrath over the 50-year span of his literary career. The Princeton-educated iconoclast was a prolific writer of overstated and splenetic books and magazine articles in which he inveighed against everything from preachers to pollution to "pompous slut" politicians. This year, in Sons and Daughters of Mom, Wylie turned his guns from Mom to her hippie children: "second generation vipers...